Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-26
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Joye6h.@fe dnderesst ufsrifuidprisffions
with gloomy fortitude.. remains truestp his
Sophia in thought word and deed, and, in
short, does the crushed virtue business in
an exemplary manner ct to delight the most
exquisite taste. As for Sophia she becomes
little. more than name. a. SCI as# VI
Yet the play is effective and amusing,
though commonplace.
The new Grand opera house at the South
End is to be first class theater in its APP
pointments. seating $500. 1t will open
about Thanksgiving time.
Maurice Grau's French opera bouffe COM
pany is at the Globe.
Myra Goodwin is giving .'Philopene,
farcical comedy!, at the Park.
Louis Aldrich playing MY Partner"
at the Howard
1t is probably a surprise to most Bos-
tonians to learn that there are from 1000 to
1900 Scandinavians here who can turn out
for the parade in honor of Left Ericsson,
the discoverer of America, whose
statue is to be unveiled on the
29th. The whole country has had
an opportunity to become informed
of the statue through the newspapers
descriptions and cuts that have been pub
lished in all sections. 1t is a noble statue,
worthy of the bold adventurer who led his
sea kings to these shores five centuries be-
fore Columbus was ready to furnish chap
ter for the story books. The pres
emit ceremony is peculiarly timely
in view of the recent resurrection
of records tending to show that
che Norsemen's discovery was not, as
supposed, unknown outside their own kins-
men and the poet historians of the time, but
that the tale of their voyage eventually
reached Rome, through ecclesiastical chan
nels, and, perhaps, became known to Column
bus.
The statue is placed where il will show
to fine advantage near the western end of
Commonwealth avenue, and stands on a
PEDESTAL twenty feet high. Its chief in
scription is: 'Leif, the discoverer, son
of Eric, who sailed from Ireland, landed on
this continent ammo Domini 1000"
Christopher Jansen, the Norwegian
poet John Ericsson, Rev. Z. Z. Hale and
the Norwegian consuls will make addresses
The poet Bjornst jerne Bjornson has also
been invited
Tax-dodgng is a common weakness
hereabout, the favorite method of the
wealthy citizens being to secure residence
in some outlying town, while spending
most of their time in Boston, where the
bulk of their possessions lie. The tax
payers also lie sometimes 1t is now
feared that this tendency of
heavy taxpayers to migrate to
suburban towns will lie increased. because
of the sudden rise in taxation. Boston has
been paying 40 per cent. of the state tax,
but will now pay half. The increase of tax
alton is not brought about by raising the
nominal rate; the legislature has put limit
on that well as on the amount of debt
the city may assume; but the law is evaded
by increasing the valuation of property.
The business property in the heart of the
city has had particularly heavy burden
put on it this year in this way, the INCREASE
in valuation being stated at 30 to 80 per
cent. That is why the business men are
wrathy and are holding indignation meet
ings.
A plucky woman has been attending the
meeting of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union here this week-Frances E.
Willard Boston society honored itself in
its social honors paid her in the re-
ception given to her at the Bruins
wick, and this incident in the social
panorama suggests anew the enlarged
views of the general public in the
truer appreciation this age is giving to the
heroism that resists the current of popular
indulgence Those who know Miss Willard
through her literary work alone, be it writ
ing or speaking, only have fractional
view of a woman who will leave to America
the heritage of an immortal work and a
noble name Her best strength goes daily,
yearly, into the invisible part of her work,
so to speak; into the organizing, the direct
i've, the harmonizing work Her personal
contribution alone in mere writing or
speaking is the outcome o.. fragmentary
moments and of tired hours. Her best
strength has gone elsewhere. doing that
which needs to be done and which only such
spiritual force as hers could do. The woman
who might have been especially superior in
literature whose fine culture gives her pre-
eminence in the most cultured circles has
chosen to give her life to the attempt to
work moral revolution in America
The women of the Temperance union ap-
peared to feel that their influence in Great
ing public sentiment against liquor selling
was scarcely surpassed by any other agency,
and they were highly enthusiastic They
asserted for themselves a large share
of the credit for the ma ority given for no.
license in Massachusetts in 1886, on the
vote taken in the different towns and cit
les on the question of licensing the sale of
liquor. They are intensely practical in
their methods of work. and appear tremen-
dously i'll earnest in their warfare on the
saloon system
Once in n while among the busy scenes on
the city streets there take place interesting
little incidents unnoted by the majority in
the passing crowds On a street corner,
where a boy kept a chestnut stand in
dangerous nearness to the line of travel, a
heavy dray grazed the curbstone and in a
moment over went the stand The chest
nuts rolled over the sidewalk, the fire went
out and tears and outcries showed the little
vender's dismay. Immediately the scene
of accident was an animated place of good
offices. one passer-by righted the stand,
some small boys picked up the cheStnuts.
and to make the dealer more contented sew
eral men emptied their pockets of coin ana
filed the till with more money than it had
held for many days perhaps never before.
The accident showed that good will exists